Author Question: A graduate nurse learns about the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accounta-bility ... (Read 23 times)

clippers! · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

A graduate nurse learns about the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accounta-bility Act (HIPAA), which include which of the following?

a. Requires employers to offer health care insurance
b. Regulates the amount employers can charge for insurance
c. Mandates that employers provide specific benefits
d. Helps maintain coverage when a person changes jobs

Question 2

An older patient is being admitted to a long-term care facility. The nurse recognizes that the primary purpose of the initial geriatric health assessment is to

a. identify the patient's physiologic base-lines.
b. ultimately create a plan of care that pre-vents disability and dependence.
c. initiate the therapeutic nurse-patient rela-tionship.
d. document self-care deficiencies that the patient exhibits.

Pamela.irrgang@yahoo.com · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D
HIPAA has several provisions, one of which is that it helps people maintain health care insurance when they are changing jobs. The other statements are common misconceptions about HIPAA.

Answer to Question 2

B
Specifically, the purpose of older adult assessment is to identify patient strengths and limitations so that effective and appropriate interventions can be delivered to support, promote, or restore optimum function and to prevent disability and dependence. Physiologic baseline, therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, and self-care deficits are all important aspects of the assessment but not the major purpose for it.